Take a look at the difference in paint between the spartan cab and wide cab GP38's ! The local from Oakville is on the approach to Hamilton with niagara traffic that will be lifted by CN 330 in a ... (more)

Once more down Memory Lane: A pair of equine pals graze contentedly as the southbound Northlander blasts by, blissfully unaware that in less than a month the train they had become so accust... (more)

One of the last remaining customers in Brantford, Ingenia Polymers receives service once a week and always on a Wednesday on the former TH&B Waterford Subdivision. Here the crew of CN 580 get's to... (more)

Workers ride the flatcars distributing ties along the right-of-way on a westbound Ontario Northland work train at milepost 87 east of Opasatika, Ontario, on September 21, 1993. This is a portion o... (more)

CP's afternoon belt line job works down in the industrial part of Hamilton, seen here, CP3114 shoves back with a cut of cars off the interchange with the SOR.

Moment of Impact: ON 698 bears down on the Old Muskoka Road crossing in Allensville, blasting the snow bank left by the road plow earlier in the day. Click Railroad: Ontario Northland
Locomotive: GMD GP38-2
Location: Allensville, Ontario, Canada
Locomotive #: ONR 1809
Train ID: ONR 698
Photo Date: January 19, 2012

ON 698 bears down on the Old Muskoka Road crossing in Allensville, kicking up accumulated snow along the right of way.

The day after catching this train blasting through snow on its northbound journey from Toronto I catch it again heading south, encountering more snow at the South Lancelot Road crossing in Allensv... (more)

A quick flashback a couple of years to when the Northlander still plied the rails sees 697 passing Siding Lake on a typical winter day in Muskoka, with the skies beginning to clear after a morning... (more)

Canadian National units sit at the Fort Erie engine terminal. The unit on the right is GP40-2L.

Ontario Northland's 2013 Christmas Train delights the crowd at North Bay Station on a chilly December evening.

The caboose of the 2013 Ontario Northland Christmas Train, all decked out with moving, flashing lights.

With the cancellation of the Northlander passenger train service last year we don't ever get to see ONR 1809, one of our favorite locomotives any more, unless we decide to drive up to North Bay, w... (more)

Knocking down the clear signal at the east end of Cherrywood siding, CP 3111 and 8249 muscle the Oshawa Turn westbound with multi's loaded with new GM cars to Agincourt Yard.

CP Track Evaluation train creeps across Penetanguishene Road at the north end of Craighurst Siding, which it will enter and inspect before continuing on to test Essa and Baxter sidings. Note the v... (more)